canceled.
Appellant has filed an amendment after appeal, November 7, 1994,
which cancels claim 7. Therefore, claims 1 through 6, 8, 9 and
18 through 24 are properly before us on appeal.
The invention relates to a switch composed of identical
switch modules.
Independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A crosspoint switch having M input terminals and N
output terminals and comprising (M/m) times (N/n)
crosspoint switch modules each having m input
conductors, n output conductors, means operable
selectively for interconnecting any one of the m input
conductors and any selected set of the n output
conductors, n input expansion conductors, and n input
expansion crosspoint elements operable selectively to
connect the n input expansion conductors to the n
output conductors respectively, (M/m) of the modules
having their input conductors connected to the M input
terminals respectively of the crosspoint switch, (N/n)
of the modules having their output conductors connected
to the N output terminals respectively of the
crosspoint switch, the input conductors of the first
module being connected to respective input conductors
of a second module and the output conductors of the
first module being connected to respective input
expansion conductors of a third module.
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Georgiou 4,635,250 Jan. 06, 1987
Franaszek 4,929,940 May 29, 1990
Claims 1, 2, 6 and 21 through 24 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by Georgiou. Claims 1
2
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